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This is sort of interesting but isn't informative without any idea as to why some languages are slower. What is the difference between the LLVM-IR/assembly prod
by gintery 6y ago
This is sort of interesting but isn't informative without any idea as to why some languages are slower. What is the difference between the LLVM-IR/assembly produced by C and the one produced by Crystal/Nim/Julia?
- filleduchaos 6y agoCompilers aren't different from pretty much every other kind of software, for which it's generally painfully obvious that two programs that target the same data _format_ will not necessarily output the exact same _data_, especially when they have wildly differing end goals. I don't think every article discussing benchmarks has to restate that the differences between programming languages are not just syntactical to be informative.
- gintery 6y agoI'm not sure I follow. What I meant is that a benchmark over a specific task is not really informative without a comparison of why it is slower in some languages compare to other.